If Pratt survives, commission is bringing the game into disrepute:Asshat Smith

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This latest effort from Smith is extremely pathetic.

"The Australian yesterday asked AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou if he thought it appropriate, given Pratt's business acumen and football club experience, that the Visy board chairman sit on the league commission."

Shouldn't this read, Patrick Smith yesterday asked AFL chief executive etc etc?

And how about this:
"Given that the AFL community has discovered Fitzpatrick is an invisible mute, that is not a possibility."
Don't let your bias show, Patrick.

And best of all:
"If the AFL standards - driven by the commission and its orally constipated chairman - are such that a disgraced businessman can hold a prestigious and important official role, then it is the commission's inaction that brings the game into disrepute."
By this stage we are absolutely drowning in it. How can a journalist (?) be allowed to peddle this rubbish in a national newspaper? Just another reason to never again purchase The Australian or visit their website. Absolute drivel.

 

[AlecDuncan]

How can a journalist (?) be allowed to peddle this rubbish in a national newspaper?

Because they're the runt of the football journalism litter, and they know it. They have a token journalist covering the code just for appearances. Or I should say they would have, but they've got Smith instead. He probably has "Token Crackpot" on his business card.

For all the grief Hutchison gets for peering out of trash cans at least he investigates and tries to dig up the truth. Smith just rants and makes shit up - the more idiotic the better. There's not one new fact in that entire article, it's all rehashed points, and supposition bordering on conspiracy theories. I feel stupider simply for reading it.

The only reason anyone ever notices the back page of The Oz is because he's just made some monstrously inane assertion on SEN again. If the Weekly World News still published, he'd be its chief Bat Boy correspondent.

 

[Deej]

It's semantics really.
VISY is a privately owned company - owned by Richard Pratt.
Yes, VISY got fined, but Pratt pays the bills.

It's not semantics, Pratt didn't get fined and Pratt doesn't pay the bill. VISY got fined and VISY pays the bill. The money comes out of company funds, not Pratt's private bank account.

If Pratt were to be fined he would have to pay it out of his private stash, which he has paid income tax on in order to receive. In order to pay yourself 36 million to be able to pay the fine, you must pay 45 cents in the dollar tax. Company tax is 30 cents in the dollar.

Do i have to go on?

By the way, when Samuels talked about cartels being thieves, did he actually mention Pratt by name? Because there have been a number of people either sacked or have resigned over this affair, at both AMCOR and VISY. Maybe those people who were directly responsible for putting together and running this so-called 'cartel' are the ones Samuels was referring to and not so much Pratt himself?

Ah but Patrick Smith wouldn't have considered that possibility I'm sure.....

 

[Donstuie]

I particularly liked the part where he talked about how much integrity Ron Evans had. God he's a pisser

 

[Silvagnis]

No evidence of petrol price fixing

 

[Donstuie]

What a load of shit

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

No evidence of petrol price fixing

A government inquiry into petrol prices by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has found "no obvious evidence of price fixing" by petrol retailers.

The issue is that the ACCC couldn't catch a cold buried stark naked in snow for a week. Amcor came to them on their hands and knees while they were sipping lattes and planning their next staff christmas party.

 

[Donstuie]

Funny how quickly they lose their bite when they don't have companies selling out to them to get themselves off.